Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Quinn, Kate

Summary: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything, but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl. Imperious self-made Mab, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC QUI

Lawhon, Ariel

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: In this "historical suspense, Ariel Lawhon unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she an imposter, the thief of another woman's legacy?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Pérez-Reverte, Arturo

Summary: En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and continues as the seedy decadence of Buenos Aires envelops the secret lovers. Nice, 1937. Still drawn to one another a decade later, Max and Mecha rekindle their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

Brown, Sandra

Summary: Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble, and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Burke, James Lee

Summary: In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BUR

Bohjalian, Chris

Summary: Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Bohjalian 2021

Follett, Ken

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FOL

Davis, Fiona

Summary: ""The Dollhouse. That's what we boys like to call it. The Barbizon Hotel for Women, packed to the rafters with pretty little dolls. Just like you." Fiona Davis's stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors lived side-by-side while attempting to claw their way to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1852 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAV

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAV

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Davis 2016

Setterfield, Diane

Summary: When the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SET

Hirsch, Paddy

Summary: "Seven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America, traders chafe at government regulations, racial tensions are rising, gangs roam the streets and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians... 1799 was a hell of a year. Thanks to Alexander Hamilton, America has recovered from the panic on the Devil's Half Mile (aka Wall Street), but the young country is still finding...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIR

Follett, Ken.

Summary: Just before World War I, two men--one a noble Russian emissary, the other a denizen of Europe's underground--set in motion a concatenation of world-shaking, ultimately fatal events.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2003

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Scottoline, Lisa

Summary: Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCO

Harris, Robert

Summary: 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Harris, Robert

Summary: Guy Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving in 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Rikard von Holz is on the staff of the German Foreign Office--and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Guy flies with Chamberlain...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Tapper, Jake

Summary: Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his predecessor died mysteriously, Charlie is struggling to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, DC, alongside his young wife Margaret, a zoologist with ambitions of her own. But when Charlie discovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of governance, he has to fight not only for his...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAP

Baldacci, David

Summary: WWII veteran Aloysius Archer is fresh out of prison and heads to California, where there's money to be made if you're hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or all three.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BAL

Greenwood, T. (Tammy)

Summary: Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he's an FBI agent who can have her arrested unless she does as he says. Over the next two years Frank mentally and physically...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRE

Cussler, Clive

Summary: "The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CUS

Brown, Kate Lord

Summary: "An international bestseller, Kate Lord Brown's debut novel The Perfume Garden has sold especially well in Canada, where it was selected as Walmart's Read of the Month for June 2015 and made it to the Globe & Mail bestseller list. The House of Dreams combines Brown's lovely, lyrical writing and signature interwoven past/present narrative style with an even more commercial time period and a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Newton, Andie

Summary: Rumors of the Reich's dreaded Brown Sisters coming for Czech children swept through the villages like a breeze through the trees, but the story was always the same. The Reich wanted Aryan looking children to raise as their own. Since her husband, Josef, joined the Czech resistance three years ago, Anna Dankova has done everything possible to keep her daughter, Ema, safe. But when blonde haired,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One More Chapter 2023

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Perry, Anne

Summary: In this first book in a new series, Thomas Pitt's son Daniel races to save his client from execution, setting him against London's Special Police Branch. It's 1910, and Daniel Pitt is a reluctant lawyer who would prefer to follow in the footsteps of his detective father. When the biographer Russell Graves, who Daniel is helping defend, is sentenced to execution for the murder of his wife,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PER

Cameron, Sharon

Summary: Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAM

Downing, David

Summary: "Spring 1915. As the Great War burns its way across Europe, Jack McColl, a spy for His Majesty's Navy, is stationed in India, charged with defending the Empire against Bengali terrorists and their German allies. In England, meanwhile, suffragette journalist Caitlin Hanley begins the business of rebuilding her life after the execution of her brother, an Irish republican sympathizer whose plot...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOW

Black, Benjamin

Summary: Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland. A female English secret agent,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Black 2020

chat loading...
Back to Top